D&D General Todd Kenreck Let Go from WotC

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

only WotC’s AI can be trained on 50 years of D&D data

The AI industry is well known for keeping its hands off of material that doesn't belong to it.

 

[pukunui]

... because only WotC’s AI can be trained on 50 years of D&D data

Tell that to Sam Altman. ChatGPT seems to have a considerable amount of D&D content (both WotC and TSR) in its database.

 

[mamba]

Tell that to Sam Altman. ChatGPT seems to have a considerable amount of D&D content (both WotC and TSR) in its database.

mixed in with a ton of stuff that throws it off when actually generating something for D&D

 

[popuman]

This corporate bloodletting is pretty standard these days. As long as Hasbro's bottom line is nit affected, they couldn't care less. Totally FUBAR, but that's how things are.

However, D&D survived that and more. Darrington Press gets some top notch talent. I'm sure Kenreck will land on his feet. We'll see.

 

[pukunui]

mixed in with a ton of stuff that throws it off when actually generating something for D&D

I haven't found that to be the case. It's been pretty helpful to me when converting adventures from older editions to 5e and when brainstorming ideas and such. It seems to be able to evaluate a 5e statblock and judge the CR fairly accurately (using the 2014 monster-building rules) as well.

 

[cbwjm]

Thread title kind of makes it sounds like he was being held hostage.

 

[mamba]

It seems to be able to evaluate a 5e statblock and judge the CR fairly accurately (using the 2014 monster-building rules) as well.

my comment was not limited to stat blocks, they are probably the hardest for AI to hallucinate about, as they are so limited

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Sure!

I think paired with the killing of Sigil and Video Game stuff and the press on TV and Movies not going great (internally at Hasbro) we might be looking at a massive restructuring and redirection of D&D.

Specifically, I think they're gonna go all in on AI.

The video game stuff is explicitly coming back.

 

[TerraDave]

This is about the new non-edition being out. Plus maybe the senior people who had his back no longer being there.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

My current guess is the bean counters decided that licensing has much better bang-per-buck and so are cutting as much from trpg support as they can to focus on more profitable stuff.

Probably. I suspect for the Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and Ravenloft books they are heavily relying on freelancers, perhaps ones with heavy ties to their respective settings.